Boy, we had heard about this and our Pastor had just done a study on modesty. He got hold of this issue real fast. We have decided not to fly because this is a modesty issue.

This is gross really.......I am glad that he make this thing under notice

this is terrible. my first time seeing the machine i begged and pleaded to the tsa girl that i dont want to go in there and all she did was giggle. i was in tears arguing about how the picture is saved and the high level of radiation.
needless to say i didnt win the arguement and i felt sick and light headed for about an hour after going thru the machine. it cant possibly be safe.

Adding the health issues of body scanners is another layer of government control of our very being. Every day we are dehumanized a little more, everyday we are subjected to another loss of freedom. We're the frogs in the vat of water, it's gradually getting hotter and hotter, but we don't notice. By the time enough people wake up and say enough, it will be too late because the water will have boiled.

I am keeping my feet planted on the earth too.

We can add another victim to the list. A female airport worker had an xray photo snapped of her by a male coworker when she passed through a a full-body scanner at Heathrow airport. The woman was so traumatized she is finding it hard to go back to work.

The full story is here.

Re: Airport scans, i agree with the person's comments above, Anonymous, we are losing more and more of our Freedoms each day, we are exploited and abused, and we are being distracted about the Real things that matter in Life, OUR RIGHTS AND OUR FREEDOMS, by what i call the 3 SSS's, ....sex, sport, and song, We need to wake up, and realize that whenever we lose a just ONE of our Freedoms or Rights, Very hard to ever get it back again, We need to think about What's really Important in Life, Our Health, Our Rights, and OUr Freedom, to your good Health, Margaret

This past week I traveled from California to Virginia for a teacher's institute in Williamsburg. I didn't see this new scanning machine until I was being screened at the Richmond airport on my way home (July 6th, 2010). While I was in line, I discussed how this made me feel uncomfortable and that I had never seen the images myself, but that my husband said that they are far too revealing.

I was selected to enter this machine. While I was about to exit, one of the government employees said something about a "wedding day" I was a bit shocked when I heard that. As I continued towards him, he laughed and said that he "can really picture this one." Later, I found out that he was in direct verbal contact with his coworker who was looking at my scanned body. There is no mistake that he was directing his conversation towards me. All of the nonverbal clues were there. He thought that he was quite funny while being flirtatious in nature.

I was suprised at how his comments negatively effected me. I was very upset. I was badly shaking to the point that it was clearly visible to others standing near me and difficult to hold a pen and write. I found it difficult to speak and had to fight off the tears. I am not an emotional girl, but I felt so violated. The comments were bad enough, but the employee to made these comments thought that he was hilarious.

I made a report and soon after hear from one of my fellow passengers that one of the senior employees told her to let me know that the two men were only talking about a freinds wedding. I am sure that all who were involved clearly understood that these were direct and horrible comments towards an innocent paying customer. How sad that the people who are in charge are willing to help cover up this perverse behavior! It's only getting started; when will we demand that innocent people have the freedom to privacy and the freedom to fly without being sexually harrassed.

Not that it matters, but I was wearing full-length jeans and a shirt that practically went up to the bottom of my neck. I was not dressed as though I was looking for attention!

I will forever be terrified to walk through the airport in fear that I will be taken advantage of again. I am told that the only other alternative is to get a pat down. What kind of alternative is this?

Cut this fake virtue and religious shyness!
It is not the question of exposing your body to giggling airport workers! Now the faces are really shaded!
God created you NAKED! But God did not created X ray!
So protect your self from the scanner! Not from the eyes of an airport employee!
Again! The mind out of focus! By making problem of something not important your mind is derailed!
Ionized X ray is very harmful! So fight against it with reason!
If you are so virtuous, than the body touching, or stripping would be not a choice either!
So stay on the ground!
Take a car! Stay home!
I LOVE GOD, but I would strip! If not offered in private, I would do front of every one, till the official stops me, and takes me to a private room.
I have nothing to hide! Specially explosives, except my butt hole, in I have flatulence!

You see, sometime one MUST take trip! I want to pay only the price for the ticket with Dollars and not with my health!
My aging family live in Europe, and my husbands family too!
Sometimes is sickness and death of close relatives and we just have to go! They want to see us once more...Sometimes after many years!
Crossing the "paddle" need the airplane!

Pat down is a good alternative! Does not have Ionic X ray!
Freedom? Democracy? Constitution?
All Gone With The Wind!
Who are responsible? You and I! We all!!!
When things are dandy, we do not care! Only when start to hurt!
Than it is to late!
It is like a cancer! Came painless, and when hurt it is to late!

look maybe I just dont get it.. I have seen the images these machines produce..BIG DEAL... as for the radiation I am no expert but most of the time all of the doom and gloom proves to be a big fuss over nothing... Here is how i see it. If the goverment put these in people complain because its an invasion of privacy, which by the way you have no legal right to expect in a public place like say an airport.. On the other hand they dont do it and another big hit happens and one of these scaners "could " or "might" have stoped it then the nation get really upset and say they should have put them in... This is not about the constitution or modesty its about safety.. I truely dont see the founding fathers being upset because security measure needed to be updated and intesified becasue of a real and possabel terrorist strike.. as for modesty that term does not fit the situation because you are not possing or actng in a lude, sexual or attention getting way.. you simply are getting scanned for the safety of the others on the plane... If anything it sound like you are uncomfortable with your own physical loks and bother by the phycological implications of being judged by our percived faults.

Yes Jayson you clearly do NOT get it.

"Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."

This is not about "physical looks"...not by a long shot. The issues are :

(1) Sliding down that oh so slippery slope. You'll have to pardon the 1984 references (if you've never read it you should) but in situations like these it's almost impossible not to. The security theater...and make no mistakes about it, that is EXACTLY what it is THEATER...is really a symbol more than anything. It is a symbol of us letting terrorism win. A symbol of us adjusting our quality of life...our freedoms...or sense of self and privacy...for the possibility that some hateful person might want to do us harm. The fact is the hate mongers will get to us no matter what. While we busily set up our invasive uncomfortable and possibility health threatening screening procedures the terrorists merrily went laughing to mail off their packages of printers and death. They will ALWAYS find another way to threaten us despite our increasingly elaborate measures of harassing our OWN citizens they will find a way and buckling to their fear mongering only means they indeed have truly won. TSA themselves have just announced that in the past year they have detected 130 "prohibited, illegal or dangerous items"..yup just 130. And of course these include prohibited and illegal items so were talking shampoo, mouth wash, and that college kids' baggie of pot being part of that 130. Does this really warrant us giving up our freedoms and sense of self. Do we really FEEL safer? And most importantly are we really truly any safer?

And when do we say enough is enough. Today peering at our naked bodies or groping our genitals tomorrow thought police?

""It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. "

(2) The long term damage of that ionized radiation is still as yet undetermined. And if you think that is just hysterical hype you have to look no further than the fact that those supposedly harmless CT scans turned out to not be so harmless and now account for 29,000 cancers a year.

Does anyone have the right to force us to submit to something that may harm our health and well being (and certainly harms our quality of life) in the name of "safety"? With our only other option being someone handling our body parts in the most intimate of ways?

I only hope people don't back down on this one...getting distracted by the latest celebrity scandal or royal wedding. We need to keep saying "This is not ok" very loudly.

No Jayson this is NOT about people being uncomfortable with their physical looks. Not by a long shot.